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Hal Greenland asseses the dramatic shift to the centre left in Australia after the weekend federal elections.
On Saturday, the Australian federal elections resulted in a dramatic shift to the centre-left in a poll that saw the emergence of a batch of insurgent feminist politicians. The (...)
After nine years of ruling for the rich, the Coalition government’s primary vote dropped by more than 6 percent and it lost a slew of seats—and government—in yesterday’s federal election. This was a public judgement of its agenda of tax cuts for the well-off, wage cuts for workers, inaction on (...)
Stereotypes and political rhetoric about poverty ignore the fact that welfare payments in Australia are obscenely low
As we barrel towards what’s sure to be an unedifying federal election campaign with more of us long-term unemployed and facing entrenched poverty than ever before, poor people (...)
As cryptocurrencies become mainstream and frictionless, extremists are finding new ways to fundraise
There have never been more ways to ask for money on the internet. For rightwing extremists looking to monetise hate, that can be a big opportunity – and the earning potential of these digital (...)
Sovereign wealth fund’s holdings include 14 companies that have done business with military which has killed more than 1,200 since coup
Australia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Future Fund, has invested in a Chinese state-controlled weapons manufacturer that has sold combat aircraft to the Myanmar (...)
A set of “fake unions” with links to current and former Liberal and National party figures are capitalising on anti-vaccination fears to recruit doctors, teachers and nurses and exploit dissent within the labour movement about mandatory vaccinations.
Queensland-based Red Union claims nurses from (...)
The coronavirus pandemic has preyed on weaknesses created by decades of austerity, confirming what socialists have consistently argued: privatization was a disaster.
The link between privatization and the second wave of COVID-19 in Australia’s southeastern state of Victoria is now indisputable. (...)
Climate change protesters arrested for obstructing traffic have been given “absurd” bail conditions that ban them from “going near” or contacting members of Extinction Rebellion, which civil liberties groups say infringes on freedom of political communication.
On Monday, 30 people – including (...)
Major environment groups, including the Australian Conservation Foundation and Greenpeace, back XR protests
The head of one of Australia’s largest environment groups has warned Extinction Rebellion protesters they could be creating division on environmental issues at a time when “cool heads” are (...)
Peter Dutton has described protesters as ‘a scourge’, with the threat of increased penalties and imprisonment in several states
On Monday, the activist group Extinction Rebellion will begin a week of global protests.
In Brisbane, home to the grassroots organisation’s first Australian chapter, (...)
On 18 May, Australians will cast their votes in an election that has workers’ rights at centre-stage. In what has been declared by the main opposition Labor Party as a “referendum on wages”, the proposed policies on workplace relations have not been more divergent in over a decade.
Emerging as a (...)
Sydney meeting hears calls for party to be more proactive on Uluru Statement from the Heart and economic policy
Labor’s left faction is beginning to raise its voice about the plight of children on Nauru – concerns have been raised at a meeting of factional convenors and union bosses, and there (...)
The Australian capital has seen five prime ministers in the past six years, the result of uprisings within the alternately governing Liberal and Labor Parties. No prime minister has served a full electoral term since 2007.
Malcolm Turnbull, the sitting prime minister and leader of the (...)
The purpose is to maintain an economy for the benefit of the rich under the pretext of fighting inflation
The website of the Reserve Bank of Australia is probably not a place most people would visit for a laugh but, in the debate about unemployment, the pitiful rate of Newstart and a (...)
World Vision Australia chief advocate says bill is part of a ‘zeitgeist of a silencing and gagging of civil society’
Tim Costello, chief advocate of the aid body World Vision Australia, has compared the Australian government’s foreign donations bill to attempts to stifle dissent in Vladimir (...)
Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon, the standard bearer for a more radical politics in the Australian Greens, has found herself compared to Jeremy Corbyn but the impact of Corbyn may be more significant on the Australian Labor Party.
The whole world may, or may not, be watching Jeremy Corbyn and (...)
Victoria has become the first Australian state to introduce a permanent ban on onshore fracking and coal seam gas exploration. Hailed as a stunning and inspiring victory of a “grassroots” movement fighting against a strong streak of climate change denial in the national government and the (...)
Australia’s offshore detention regime is a fortress of secrecy, intimidation and repression. The Guardian’s “Nauru Files” have knocked some of the bricks out of this edifice; what they reveal is horrifying.
The files contain more than 2,000 incident reports involving harm or threatened harm to (...)
“Finally, I see so many people standing here together, standing in solidarity. We are uniting against these bigots, these clowns.” These were the words of Rasheed, one of a hundred or so young Muslim locals who joined several hundred socialists, anarchists and other local residents to drive the (...)
The Australian left has lost one of its outstanding revolutionary comrades. Doug Lorimer, a committed socialist activist for 42 years and a remarkable writer and educator in the ideas of Marxism, died in Sydney on 21 July after a year of deteriorating health. Doug dedicated his whole life to (...)
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